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India-Pakistan
He came, he saw, but he didn't do much
2014-05-16
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: Retired Captain Mohammad Safdar, member of National Assembly and the son-in-law of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
, has been accused of not paying attention to the proceedings of the Assembly, while he just sat and chatted with his fellow politicians.

During his stay in the House, on Thursday, the MNA did not even bother to go through the question-answer booklets or the agenda of the day, which kept lying on his desk undisturbed.

Throughout his presence on his allotted seat, he kept engaging in conversation with people sitting around him.

Perhaps, it was Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's expected appearance in the National Assembly session which brought Mr Safdar to the house. Otherwise, he is not regular in attending the assembly sessions.

Mr Safdar, who won the National Assembly seat from his home town of Mansehra
...a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south...
, has only been assigned the membership of a committee which the prime minister has constituted to review the development schemes carried out under public sector development programme over the last five years, unlike his wife Ms Maryam Nawaz Sharif, who is steering the Pakistain Mohammedan League-Nawaz's signature youth loan programme as the chairperson.
Posted by:Fred

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